I tried to get a tape drive working with the storage daemon on Windows without success. Before I bang my head against the wall too much, I wanted to ask if in general this works or not. I realize that the Windows side of stuff is still "experimental".
I am running Windows 2003 Server that is up to date patch-wise. I am trying to use a DLT-7000 tape drive. The tape drive seems to work correctly with Windows backup and Veritas Backup Exec. The tape drive passed both the Quantum and HP DLT diagnostics. I installed the 2.0.3 binaries on the server and set up the configuration files. My director on another machine can communicate with it. My problem is that there seems to be some basic issue talking to the tape drive. When I fire up btape and try something simple like asking for capabilities I get: *cap Configured device capabilities: EOF BSR BSF FSR FSF FASTFSF !BSFATEOM EOM REM !RACCESS AUTOMOUNT !LABEL !ANONVOLS ALWAYSOPEN MTIOCGET Device status: OPENED TAPE LABEL !MALLOC !APPEND !READ !EOT !WEOT !EOF !NEXTVOL !SHORT Device parameters: Device name: Tape0 File=0 block=0 Min block=0 Max block=0 Status: Bacula status: file=0 block=0 Device status: BOT ONLINE IM_REP_EN file=0 block=0 btape: ../../stored/btape.c:1799 Device status: 645. ERR=../../stored/dev.c:1545 ioctl MTBSR error on "DLT-7000" (Tape0) . ERR=Input/output error. If I run the btape test command I don't even get past the first step. Is there something basic about setting up tape drives under Windows I am missing? Rex ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
